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Antique Dresdens

July 19, 2013

These dresden plates were sitting in a box at a local antique store just waiting to be finished. Someone spent a long time hand piecing and basting the edges, and after appliqueing them onto onto white background squares, they make a beautiful quilt.

There are some really great fabrics hidden here…like these funky little pixel people:

I love when treasures like that end up in the hands of someone who appreciates them. I have a vintage Double Wedding Ring quilt top I've been trying to repair and debating what to do about the quilting part…I'd rather just send to the longarm. ;)

What a great find! I have several sets of quilt blocks that my great grandmother made and never put together-some dresdens, some complicated hexies, some embroidered, but all wonderful. I am terrified of them!

I came into 29 Dresden plate hand pieced "plates". Did the same as you, in fact the two could be twins. Now I don't know how to finish the quilting. I'm looking forward to seeing how you finish yours. Mine is sitting sandwiched ready to do something but what? These vintage blocks are too precious to ruin.